AI social media videos

Social video made as a set, not one by one

A feed is judged as a whole. Twenty short videos that each look fine but look nothing like each other read as a brand that does not know what it is. We build the look once and make the run against it, so the tenth video belongs to the first.

Takes 2 minutes. No call, no sales pitch.

What this costs

Typical

$6,900 – $9,200

with your script, normal timeline

Both numbers are real and they are not a discount and a price. The floor is what the pass buys at its simplest — your script, one location, one character, no VFX layer. The typical range is the same film with the things most briefs actually ask for. What moves the number, itemised.

1

One look, decided before the first video

Palette, light, typography, the kind of shot you use and the kind you never use. It is set on approved frames at the start, and every video in the run is made against it — not matched afterwards.

2

Native framing, not a cropped ad

9:16 first, because that is where it will be watched, with the product and the type placed for the thumb and the caption bar. Square and six-second versions are built from the same shots rather than cut out of a horizontal master.

3

Delivered on a plan, not in a dump

Videos arrive in the order your calendar needs them, a week or two ahead, with the cover frame and caption suggestion for each. If you post daily, that is a different rhythm from a launch week, and we plan for the one you have.

4

Variants that test one thing

Two hooks on the same video, three endcards, the same scene in two settings. Because the variants are re-renders of one build, everything except the thing you are testing stays identical — so the numbers mean something.

What else usually goes with it

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AI commercial

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An ad30 sec

A spot that stops the scroll — for TV, YouTube or paid social.

  • Script and storyboard
  • 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 cuts
  • Licensed music, cleared for ads
Typical project$3,100–4,100
Something elseAny length

Need something else? Explainers, trailers, game teasers, event openers, looping screens — describe it, and the calculator prices it for you.

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What does not keep up with a trend

A sound or format that is everywhere this week. By the time a run is briefed, built and approved, the moment has usually moved on — and a polished take on a dead trend is worse than a rough one on time. Generated video is also weak at the thing native social does best: a real person filming themselves badly, on purpose.

What we do instead

We make the evergreen spine of the feed — product, story, explainers, seasonal pieces — and leave space in the plan for the reactive posts your team shoots on a phone. The two work better together than either alone.

The part nobody shows you

How we keep the AI invisible.

The reason most AI video looks cheap is that it ships the way it came out. Ours doesn't. Drag the handle to see the difference one pass makes.

The finished frame after colour, clean-up and grain
The same frame straight out of the model: flat, cold and oversharpened
Straight out of the modelAfter our pass
Both frames are our own work, made to show the pass — not a client project.
  1. 01

    We start from pictures, not prompts

    Before anything is generated we build a reference board: your product from every side, your palette, the exact light. The model gets shown what to make, not told.

  2. 02

    The same person in every shot

    A character sheet comes first — face, wardrobe, height, the way they stand. Every shot is generated against it, so nobody's jaw changes between cuts.

  3. 03

    A person cuts every frame

    Generation gives us material, not a film. An editor picks the takes, fixes hands, paints out the tells, and tracks your logo in so it sits on the surface.

  4. 04

    Colour and sound by people

    One grade across the whole film, so the shots belong to each other. Sound designed to picture, not pulled from a library and stretched to fit.

Plain pricing / four passes

What it costs

Four ways to work with us, all in dollars, all on the page. Every number here is a floor, not an average: it buys the simplest honest version of that job — your script, one location, one character, no VFX layer. Add a character, a second language, or a look nobody has built before, and it moves. The calculator prices your actual idea in two minutes.

  • Pass 1

    Single

    from$480

    5–7 days

    One film, up to 15 seconds. The whole thing, start to finish.


    • Script and shot list
    • Generation and edit
    • One round of changes
    • Masters in two ratios
  • Pass 2 · most booked

    Campaign

    from$1,400

    10–15 days

    Thirty seconds plus the cuts you need to actually run it.


    • 30-second film
    • 9:16, 1:1 and 6-second cuts
    • Voice-over and sound design
    • Two rounds of changes
  • Pass 3

    Flagship

    from$3,200

    3–5 weeks

    Forty-five to sixty seconds with a character built for you.


    • Character development
    • The same face in every shot
    • VFX layer and original score
    • Full cutdown kit
  • Pass 4 · season ticket

    Retainer

    $1,200/ month

    72 h SLA

    Eight to twenty films a month against your content plan.


    • Monthly plan, agreed up front
    • Priority in the queue
    • Same team every time
    • Flat rate, no per-film maths

If the film runs longer

Past a minute, we price by runtime. Same six steps, more of everything.

1–2 min

$3,500

Around 3 weeks

2–3 min

$4,500

4 to 5 weeks

3–5 min

$6,000

6 weeks and up

No idea what your budget should be?

Price your actual idea, not a category

Five questions about what you're making. You get a real number and a scope in writing. Two minutes, no call, and nobody phones you afterwards.

Payment
50% to start, 50% on delivery. No invoice before you have seen a frame.
Changes
Two rounds on every project. A third if we got the brief wrong — that one is on us.
Rights
The finished film and the source files are yours, in full, for any use.

All prices are ballpark. The final number moves with the script, the number of characters and how complicated the idea is. You get the exact figure in writing before anyone starts.

AI social media videos: questions

How many videos are in a batch?

Whatever your plan needs. Most runs are between eight and twenty videos a month, and the calculator prices a set rather than a single film. Ongoing volume is what the Retainer pass is for.

Will TikTok or Instagram flag it as AI?

Some platforms label AI-made content, and several ask you to disclose it. We embed Content Credentials in every file so the disclosure is accurate if it is asked for. Being labelled does not stop a video from being shown.

Do you write the captions and pick the sounds?

We suggest a caption and a cover frame for each video. Trending sounds are best added by whoever posts, inside the app, because licensed in-app audio cannot be baked into the file.

Can the videos feature the same character every time?

Yes, and it is one of the strongest things a feed can have. The character is built once on a sheet and every video is made against it.

What does a batch for social cost?

A typical set is priced in the range shown above, with your scripts and a normal timeline. Shorter or fewer videos cost less; the calculator prices your actual plan in two minutes.

Let's price your film

Two minutes, five questions, a real number at the end. No call unless you want one.

Takes 2 minutes. No call, no sales pitch.

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